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@witch tetee etmt @ffice WILLIAM L. IMLAY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

Letters Patent No. 73,724, dated January 28, 186,8.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOSING FRUIT-JARS.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM L. IMLAY, of the city and county of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented on Improved Lock or Closure forFruit-Jars and I do hereby declare the following to-be a full and exact description thereof', reference being had to the annexed drawings, and to the letters thereon.

Figure I is n. view of the side ofmy jar.

Figure 2, of the bail or loop over its cover.

Figure 3, of the recesses in which Ithe loop is fixed.

My object is to so arrange and construct the bail or loop that secures the jar, that it shell at oil times be att-ached to certain cavities in the neck of the jar, yet be capable of adjustment or tightening therein and I aid this closure of thejms by springs on thebeil or loop, together with the shape of the bail, and of one of the cav-ities or recesses. This is apparent in the drawings.

In g. I, A is the jar, B the cover of the jor, C the bail, with its springs D, and bent into the recesses, of which E is the one, with en'inclined and corrugated upper surface, F, and in which recesses the nil is held at all times, both when holding the jar shut and when the jar is open. In iig. 2, the same letters refer to the same parts, the jar, cover, and bail being seen at right 4angles 'to the last figure, in side elevation, and D I) nre the springs on the bail. Fig. 3, at G, shows a view of the hinge or plain recess, on -one side of the jdr, holding the hail, and at E the oblique recess, always retaining and hinging the other end of the bail, yet allowing it to be slid 'ixp cr down the corrugated and inclined surface F of the recess. The recess G is l'ounchend the recess E rectangular and inclined.

The uses and advantages of the jar are apparent to those skilled in the art to which it nppertains.

Claims. Y l. The rectangular recess or ,cavity E, in the neclc of the jar, with its inclined and corrugated side F, retaining the boil, und tightening it by sliding the bail over the corrugations, as shown onddescribed.

2. The combined arrangement and construction of thc jur A, cover B, bail or loop C, With its. springs D, plein round roc-css G, rectangular and inclined recess E, corrugations F, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

W. L. IMLAY.

Witnesses:

SAMUEL J. PARKER, PAULINE IMLAY. 

